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Anon A. posted an article on - Feb 9, 2012, 10:56 pm
The August 10th, 2011 blog entry, 'Great quotes', highlighted a quote by Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the top commander in Afghanistan, who claimed that “All across Afghanistan, the insurgents are losing. They’re losing territory, they’re losing leadership, they’re losing weapons and suppl...
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Anon A. posted an article on - Feb 8, 2012, 11:03 pm
Word cloud of the front page, from Tagxedo
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Brief update II (Afghan fauna)

Anon A. posted an article on - Feb 5, 2012, 7:35 pm
Source: NatGeo The July 24th, 2011 bog entry, 'Brief update (Afghan fauna)', linked to an Al Jazeera article reporting that the Wildlife Conservation Society had found "...a surprisingly healthy population of snow leopards... in northeastern Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor..." Here are a couple of ...
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Random charts - U.S. and MENA

Anon A. posted an article on - Feb 5, 2012, 6:01 pm
Source: U.S. Trade and Investment in the Middle East and North Africa: Overview and Issues for Congress (41-pg CRS PDF)
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Random charts - mobile action codes

Anon A. posted an article on - Feb 5, 2012, 11:50 am
Source: Mobile Action Codes In Magazine Advertising 2011 From Advertisers Drive Growth in Mags’ Use of Mobile Action Codes: "... Magazines’ use of mobile action codes, including all 2D barcodes, QR codes, Microsoft Tags, and watermarks, exploded in 2011, rising 439% from Q1 to Q4, according to...
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Random charts - Income and taxes

Anon A. posted an article on - Feb 4, 2012, 12:16 pm
A number of charts re taxes: Source: The Struggling Middle Class Source: Table H-2. Share of Aggregate Income Received by Each Fifth and Top 5 Percent of Households Source Source: Summary of Latest Federal Individual Income Tax Data Source: Misconceptions and Realities About Who Pays Taxes And ...
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Random charts - federal compensation

Anon A. posted an article on - Feb 3, 2012, 5:04 am
Source: Comparing the Compensation of Federal and Private-Sector Employees Politicians (and others) have long argued whether federal employees are paid better, as well as, or worse than similar public sector employees. This CBO study looks at the questions, and concludes: CBO combined its analyses...
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Random chart - Area C

Anon A. posted an article on - Feb 2, 2012, 10:46 pm
Source: Restricting Space in the OPT: Area C Map (PDF) Some facts: Over 60 percent of the West Bank is considered Area C, where Israel retains control over planning and zoning among other issues.An estimated 150,000 Palestinians live in Area C, including 27,500 Bedouin and other herders.More than ...
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Quick update - "peace' walls

Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 31, 2012, 8:54 pm
Picture credit: Belfast peace walls - in pictures The May 6th, 2008 blog entry 'Peace Walls' noted that "... ten years after the signing of the Good Friday agreement that brought peace to the area, these walls remain. Some want them taken down, but many do not. In fact new “peace walls” (as th...
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Random charts - healthcare design

Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 31, 2012, 8:43 pm
Source: Healthcare Industry And Design Trends
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Eh?

Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 29, 2012, 2:12 pm
According to the Washington Post, France agrees to two decades of support in Afghanistan, despite attack on its troops. Reading the article the only date referenced with respect to France's involvement comes in the sentence "... French troops will continue to train their Afghan counterparts well bey...
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Random charts - Europe & U.S.

Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 29, 2012, 11:22 am
Source: L'impact de la crise sur l'emploi Source: Businomics
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Random chart - Twitter SOTU?

Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 28, 2012, 9:08 am
Source: "My Message is Simple": Obama's SOTU Written at 8th Grade Level for Third Straight Year. "For the third consecutive State of the Union Address, Barack Obama spoke in clear, plain terms. And for the third straight Address, the President's speech was written at an eighth-grade level. In Oba...
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Four years!

Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 27, 2012, 7:37 pm
Four years ago this blogger started this blog and posted a January 27th, 2008 entry related to the death of Benazir Bhutto... Not much more to say than what was said at the 3rd anniversary.
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Random charts - alternative medicine

Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 26, 2012, 6:49 pm
Source: 2010 Complementary and Alternative Medicine Survey of Hospitals "... The purpose of thissurvey was to garner in-depth information about the types of CAM programs and services being offered by hospitals, including their program costs, revenue, staffing, reimbursement and other business strate...
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Random chart - US tax rates

Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 23, 2012, 6:00 am
Source: Romney’s Tax Returns and Effective Tax Rates of the Rich From 2009 (latest available from the IRS), "... The table also shows the average, or effective, tax rate that taxpayers in each income group pay. For the entire universe of American taxpayers, the average tax rate is 11 percent of ...
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No joy!

Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 22, 2012, 6:45 pm
Source: Lessons from Medicare's Demonstration Projects on Disease Management, Care Coordination, and Value-Based Payment Over several years Medicare has tried two broad categories of demonstration projects to improve care and to see if it is possible to reduce health care expenses. The two categor...
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Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 22, 2012, 6:30 pm
Source: 'Get Back on Board, Signora Merkel!'
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Diagnosis: Muddled thinking

Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 21, 2012, 10:05 pm
An earlier post, 'Help on the way?', had noted that Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota was among the worthy Senators who "... pop up in the news every time a drug shortage occurs and hits the newspapers..." Well, it's either for publicity, to be seen doing something about a national problem, or beca...
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Great quotes

Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 21, 2012, 9:10 pm
WHEREAS, Israel has been granted her lands under and through the oldest recorded deed as reported in the Old Testament, a tome of scripture held sacred and reverenced by Jew and Christian, alike, as the acts and words of God; and, WHEREAS, as the Grantor of said lands, God stated to the Jewish peopl...
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Eh?

Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 21, 2012, 4:08 pm
"... Already fending off questions about his vast personal wealth, Romney is facing additional scrutiny this week thanks to reports that he has as much as $8 million invested in funds listed in the Cayman Islands. Though Romney does still pay U.S. taxes on his income from these funds, the Cayman add...
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Anon A. posted an article on - Jan 15, 2012, 12:05 pm
Source: Extreme temperatures of 2011: 7 national all-time heat records; 1 cold record
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Anon A. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2011, 4:09 am
Source: The Big Picture: The Natural World "... Endangered Mexican red-kneed tarantulas sat in plastic bags at the Zurich airport after being confiscated from a traveler's luggage ..."
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Anon A. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2011, 4:09 am
Source: The Big Picture: The Natural World "... Endangered Mexican red-kneed tarantulas sat in plastic bags at the Zurich airport after being confiscated from a traveler's luggage ..."
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Anon A. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2011, 4:09 am
Source: The Big Picture: The Natural World "... Endangered Mexican red-kneed tarantulas sat in plastic bags at the Zurich airport after being confiscated from a traveler's luggage ..."
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In the wild - XV

Anon A. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2011, 4:20 pm
Some QR implementations, found "in the wild.' The first, unfortunately, only available for those with Android or Apple smartphones.... The second an automotive print ad... Unfortunately the site requires Flash, so (again) unavailable on some smartphones... The third on an insert in the daily news...
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In the wild - XV

Anon A. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2011, 4:20 pm
Some QR implementations, found "in the wild.' The first, unfortunately, only available for those with Android or Apple smartphones.... The second an automotive print ad... Unfortunately the site requires Flash, so (again) unavailable on some smartphones... The third on an insert in the daily news...
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In the wild - XV

Anon A. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2011, 4:20 pm
Some QR implementations, found "in the wild.' The first, unfortunately, only available for those with Android or Apple smartphones.... The second an automotive print ad... Unfortunately the site requires Flash, so (again) unavailable on some smartphones... The third on an insert in the daily news...
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Mental health break

Anon A. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2011, 12:58 pm
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Mental health break

Anon A. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2011, 12:58 pm
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Mental health break

Anon A. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2011, 12:58 pm
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No updates

Anon A. posted an article on - Oct 3, 2011, 10:59 pm
There will be no updates 10/2 to 10/18...
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Anon A. posted an article on - Oct 2, 2011, 6:50 pm
Source: Calculated Risk
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Lately...

Anon A. posted an article on - Oct 2, 2011, 6:20 pm
Umm, yes, there have been a number of QR reader entries lately...
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Anon A. posted an article on - Oct 1, 2011, 12:09 pm
Source: Americans Give GOP Edge in Handling Nation's Problems
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Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2011, 7:15 pm
Source/credit: (Iran) War Art - Sacred Defense Week Follow the link for several more...
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Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 26, 2011, 6:46 pm
Source: The Big Picture - A glimpse of North Korea Lunch aboard the inaugural trip of a North Korean cruise ship trying to encourage Chinese (and other) tourism... (Budweiser and dried fish)
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Additional BB QR readers - XXIV

Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 25, 2011, 7:30 pm
Another QR code reader is TinyBarCode by Handrapid. Per AppWorld: "Barcode scanner/writer for BlackBerry® *Friendly user interface *Support OS6 and OS7 *Easy to use *Send generator with Email *Support "Code 128/39", "DataMatrix", "EAN-13", "EAN-8","ITF ","PDF417","UPC-A","UPC-E","QR Code"" As a...
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Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 24, 2011, 5:43 pm
Click to enlarge Source: Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature
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Great quotes

Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 20, 2011, 9:09 pm
"Well, it's just we believe that to be the case." - U.S. Ambassador Cameron Munter. Munter, in an interview on Pakistan Radio, had claimed that there was evidence linking the Haqqani network to the Pakistan government. When pressed for details and/or evidence, this was the gem he came up with... See...
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Additional BB QR readers - XXIII

Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 17, 2011, 9:33 pm
Another BB QR code reader is QR CodeFX by appsFX... (for use with OS 6 and higher). Per the web site: "As QR Codes become more popular, and useful, make sure you use this easy to user QR Code Reader from appsFX. QR CodeFX™ for BlackBerry® will read a standard QR Code and take the appropriate act...
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Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 14, 2011, 10:26 pm
Source: Associations Between Supply and Pharmacy Service Intensity, System Membership, and Hospital Performance.
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Mental health break

Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 13, 2011, 11:43 pm

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In the wild - XIV

Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 13, 2011, 4:46 am
A few recently observed examples of QR codes "in the wild" - on a Heinz ketchup bottle, a print BMW QR code, a QR code on a Time Warner cable bill, and advertising an upcoming charity occasion... The first three resolved to mobile sites, the fourth did not! Previous QR and Tag entries: BB QR reader...
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Easier to find?

Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 11, 2011, 8:30 am
The following is a list of links reviewing various BB QR Code readers. It's the same list that you get here in this bit.ly bundle, however it occurred to me that the application names were not easily visible in the bundle, so one might end up clicking through a number of links if searching for a par...
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Additional BB QR readers - XXII

Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 11, 2011, 7:45 am
Another QR scanner for the BB is the compactly-named QR Scan by B Gibbons. $0.99 On firing it up you get to a simple main screen with one option - 'Scan QR Code'. This application directly reads the QR code and does not take a photo... As always, I head over to the QR Code Quality Standards Test v1....
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Great quotes

Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 11, 2011, 6:26 am
"... Afghanistan and other troubled lands today cry out for the sort of enlightened foreign administration once provided by self-confident Englishmen in jodhpurs and pith helmets... ... Once Afghanistan has been dealt with, America should turn its attention to Iraq. It will probably not be possib...
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Additional BB QR readers - XXIa

Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 10, 2011, 7:30 pm
Additional BB QR readers - XXI noted the appearance of the Arion and Carpet One QR scanners... these appear to be clones of the Mception Scanner, reviewed here. The screen shots below show the same look and feel, differentiated only in the 'About': The bottom line: As with the Mception scanner, "...
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Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 10, 2011, 8:15 am
Source: United in Remembrance, Divided over Policies ; Ten Years after 9/11
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Anon A. posted an article on - Sep 8, 2011, 7:51 pm
Source: You just shared a link. How long will people pay attention?
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